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>V4L2 close()</H1
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>v4l2-close&nbsp;--&nbsp;Close a V4L2 device</DIV
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>Closes the device. Any I/O in progress is terminated and
resources associated with the file descriptor are freed. However data
format parameters, current input or output, control values or other
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